Crowd watching crane lift casket beside stone vault excavation – Vintage Print
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Crowd watching crane lift casket beside stone vault excavation comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Crowd watching crane lift casket beside stone vault excavation
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A crane lifts a casket from an open excavation beside a stone vault while a crowd gathers to watch, a reminder of how closely the public followed the handling of Abraham Lincoln's remains after his death. Lincoln was buried in Springfield, Illinois, in 1865, and his body was moved more than once in the following decades as the tomb was completed and its security improved, partly in response to an 1876 attempt to steal it. Scenes like this one show that those transfers were public events, not quiet private matters.
| Original scan | 3,704 × 2,823 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-D-7 |
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